Wednesday, May 28, 2014

If
Lindsey Graham is re-elected, it will be one of the greatest political
scams in American history. It may also be one of the greatest tragedies
for the American people.

It
will result in a heavy burden for American workers and their families
with more lower-paid foreign workers displacing them in the workplace
and driving down their wages. Taxpayers will pick up a large part of the
tab to benefit employers using lower-cost foreign labor.

Facebook
CEO Mark Zuckerberg's self-serving crusade for cheaper and younger
foreign workers includes heavy support for Lindsey Graham, a key
co-sponsor of Senate bill S.744, giving amnesty to over 12 million
illegal immigrants and allowing 30 to 35 million more legal immigrant
workers into the country in the next decade.

But
the people of South Carolina are barraged day after day with TV and
radio ads, many of them by Obama backing liberal Zuckerberg's phony
conservative PACs, telling the people that Lindsey Graham is a
conservative leader. But Lindsey's Graham's amnesty and foreign worker
surge bill is going to break the economic backs of ordinary working
people, and taxpayers will pay for the breaking.

The Pontiac Silverdome is a vacant sports stadium, formerly the home of
the Detroit Lions football team, and the Detroit Pistons basketball
team. Other major events included Wrestlemania III, which set a world
record for attendance at an indoor event. The Lions left the stadium in
2002, after which some concerts and sports events were held. The
Silverdome has been vacant since 2012, and the contents are being
auctioned off: http://rjmauctions.com/online_silverd...

Their son, an Iraq War veteran, was killed during a police standoff. The family said he turned to the Kansas City VA Medical Center for help, only to get turned away.

Sgt. Isaac Shawn Sims, 26, was the pride and joy of his family. He was a third generation Army veteran who served with the 82 Airborne. His family says the Army was his life, but that life came at a price.

"An eardrum had been blown out and he has 80 percent disability from brain injuries," said Patricia Sims, Isaac's mother.

The physical wounds he received in Iraq only tell part of the story, according to his parents. Isaac Sims suffered from severe depression, migraines and post-traumatic stress disorder, all from seeing his friends and comrades die in combat.

"He had to pick up body parts, he had to move forward as if nothing happened," Patricia Sims said.

His mother said her son recently drove around Kansas City in this hummer believing he was back on the battlefield. His mother rode shotgun.

"And saying ‘this is how we look for IEDs mama. This is what we do. Round and round.' Then he'd show me on YouTube the videos of an IED exploding," Patricia Sims said.

An armed father is not someone I’d ever want to be on the wrong side
of. That’s exactly what two men in their twenties faced last night
though.

According to media reports, the two men had called a woman at a Salt
Lake City residence and made threats. When the woman stopped answering
the phone, the men decided to show up at her home – armed with guns.

The pair kicked in a door to the home, which alerted the girl’s
father. The father grabbed his handgun and went to confront the
intruders.

On top of veterans being put on an interminable waiting list at V.A.
hospitals in violation of hospital policy, so interminable that some
actually died before they could get an appointment
to see a primary care physician, now comes news that bodies of deceased
veterans were left to rot in a morgue for as long as a year and a half.

Section 578 of Public Law 106-65
of the National Defense Authorization Act for FY 2000 requires that
every eligible Veteran receive a military funeral honors ceremony,
to include folding and presenting the United States burial flag and the
playing of Taps. The law defines a military funeral honors detail as
consisting of two or more uniformed military persons, with at least one
being a member of the Veteran’s parent service of the armed forces. The
Department of Defense (DOD) is responsible for providing military
funeral honors. (Source: U.S. Dept. of Veterans Affairs)

Not only is the Obama administration’s DOD not providing military
funeral honors to veterans in Los Angeles, some of them don’t even get a
burial.

There are many great Mustangs in the world, restored to like-new
condition, looking for all the world like they just drove off the
showroom floor. But for a few, great isn’t good enough. Great might not
win the Team Shelby National Diamond Award; nor win Division 1 at the
Shelby American Automobile Club Concours. Boss 429 KK 2500, however, is
so righteous that it’s done both.

It’s easy for anyone to see why the Boss Nine has turned into a legend.
As with many other great muscle cars, it has its roots in racing, in
this case a new engine that needed to be homologated for NASCAR after
Ford’s SOHC 427 Cammer was kicked out of competition.

The 429 is a truly exotic engine, from the O-ring dry-deck aluminum
hemispherical cylinder heads; to the four-bolt main for the forged-steel
crank; to the yawning 2.28 inch intake and 1.90 inch exhaust valves.

Police in California say they are looking for several suspects in a home invasion after a 22-year-old victim grabbed a gun and engaged in a gunfight to protect his younger siblings who also were in the house.

He succeeded in killing one of apparently four men who crashed in the front door, and wounding another, and police have on video the license plate number for the van in which two suspects apparently delivered their injured comrade to a hospital.

The dead attacker’s body was found at the home.

Acting Sheriff Mike Boudreaux told KFSN Television that there were four siblings in the home – their parents, farm workers, already had left for work before the 5:30 a.m. attack.

He said a 22-year-old “became aware of the robbery or potential intruders when the front door of the home was breached.”

He grabbed a gun from a safe “to protect himself and three siblings,” ages 3, 11 and 18, authorities said.

“He was fighting for his life,” the sheriff said.

A gun battle inside the home left the 22-year-old, whose name was not immediately released, with multiple gunshot wounds and he was hospitalized and expected to recover. His siblings were uninjured, authorities said.

The chief of an Army medical center has been relieved of his command
because of problems with patient care, and the Pentagon has ordered a
review of its health care system, defense officials said.

The commander was replaced Tuesday at Womack Army Medical Center at
Fort Bragg, North Carolina, and three deputies were suspended, the Army
said in a statement.

The shake-up comes after two deaths this month of patients in their
20s and problems with infection control at the facility that were
pointed out in March by a hospital accreditation group, according to two
defense officials. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they
were not authorized to discuss the matter publicly.

Some may feel that New Yorker Ibrahim King, 36, got what he deserved
after he thought it would be “funny” to punch a totally unsuspected
21-year-old girl in the face in an apparent bout of the loathsome
“knockout game.” After he punched the girl without warning he was chased
down, slammed around, had his dreadlock pulled out of his scalp and
forced to apologize by a bystander.

It's time for Schackmatt! --which is Hawaiian, or some other
language, for Checkmate!-- the international game where I pass judgment
on the foreign policy accomplishments of Hillary Clinton, and perhaps a
few others as if it were a bored game, pun intended.

Ingenious fuel thieves are causing alarm all over the U.S., as station owners and industry officials grapple not only with loss of revenue but danger to public safety. Besides the economic losses, officials across the country fear these potential “rolling bombs.”

In Florida’s Miami-Dade County, teams of diesel thieves are getting more daring and inventive with their methods, purloining fuel at several locations as officials struggle to find suspects.

Authorities say two- or three-man teams simply drive over fuel covers atop the underground reservoirs, stop and then open a false bottom in their vehicles. From there, they siphon thousands of dollars of fuel in only a few minutes and enjoy a nice profit when they sell the diesel fuel on the black market.

With a quarter-million questionable voter registrations on the books
in NC, it’s no wonder the state elections board needs more
investigators. That’s also why sustaining and enforcing the state’s
recent voter reforms is more urgent than ever.

One of the articles in the NC Insider (a subscriber-based state
politics news publication) this week reported that Kim Strach, Director
of the State Board of Elections (SBOE), is asking the General Assembly
for money to hire more investigators to look into election-related
complaints.

Kim Strach

Strach appears to be taking the results of what she called the
“Kansas cross-check” seriously and indicated the SBOE would focus its
emerging investigation on the smallest group of questionable voters
revealed in the report. Strach referred to the 765 voters whose first
and last names, dates of birth and last four digits of their Social
Security numbers match up with a voter registration in another state and who have vote histories in both states for the 2012 General Election.

Who needs the birthers when we have Barack Obama himself? His recent statement about the role of the U.S. Senate proves that he is a self-declared enemy of the United States Constitution and of its checks and balances on federal power.

At
a Democratic fundraiser in Chicago Thursday night, Mr. Obama told a
small group of wealthy supporters that there are several hurdles to
keeping Democrats in control of the Senate and recapturing the House.
One of those problems, he said, is the apportionment of two Senate seats
to each state regardless of population.

“Obviously,
the nature of the Senate means that California has the same number of
Senate seats as Wyoming. That puts us at a disadvantage,” Mr. Obama
said.

Of course, Wyoming has the same Senate representation as California specifically
to prevent individuals like Barack Obama, and his constituency of urban
parasites, from imposing their will on the less populous states. This "Great Compromise" of 1787 was a condition of these states' willingness to join the United States in the first place.

This
is also why each state gets no fewer than three electoral votes,
regardless of population. Hillary Clinton dislikes this arrangement,
because it gives her constituency less leverage in presidential
elections.

American journalist Glenn Greenwald has said he will publish
the names of dissidents and critics who have been the target of US
spying activities.

Greenwald, whose reporting of documents leaked by Edward Snowden
helped expose the scope and scale of US spying activities, says key
questions regarding the US National Security Agency’s specific targets
have remained unanswered which he is about to answer.

Dr. Richard Krugman, another VA whistleblower whose allegations were
first reported by the Examiner, told a similar story of being isolated
and eventually forced out of the agency after he complained about unsafe
conditions and policies to OSC.

Those who have revealed potentially lethal lapses in health care
say they have been ridiculed, transferred, demoted and sometimes fired
by agency managers attempting to cover up wrongdoing and silence anyone
who dares challenge their dangerous practices.

CNA Vice Chairman and retired Navy Vice Adm. Lee Gunn is president of the American Security Project, a private think tank whose primary issue is warnings about climate change.

Retired military officers deeply involved in the climate change movement — and some in companies positioned to profit from it — spearheaded an alarmist global warming report this month that calls on the Defense Department to ramp up spending on what it calls a man-made problem.

The
report, which the Obama administration immediately hailed as a call to
action, was issued not by a private advocacy group but by a Pentagon-financed
think tank that trumpets “absolute objectivity.” The research was
funded by a climate change group that is also one of the think tank’s
main customers.

Remembrance

Winners: Navy Cross Nguyen Van Kiet & MOH Thomas R. Norris This week’s Medal of Honor hero is one of a handful of Navy SEALs awarded the MOH in the Vietnam War. Norris snuck behind enemy lines with a South Vietnamese Navy petty officer rescued two downed pilots in 1972–when most of our resources had been pulled from the country. Interesting to note that later year, Norris was himself rescued by another SEAL Michael E. Thornton.More @ Medal of Honor Roll Call

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Core Creek Militia

==============================My sixth great grandfather, his wife, and five of his six children were killed in battle with the Tuscarora Indians at Core Creek, NC.

The Seven Blackbirds

==============================My third great grandfather was an Ensign in the Revolutionary War, and saved his unit's flag after being wounded at the Battle of Brandywine. He was also at Kingston (Kinston), Wilmington, Charleston, Two Sisters and Augusta. He was at the defeat at Brier Creek and also Bee Creek.

Requiem Aeternam -
Eternal Rest Grant unto Them
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My second great grandfather was killed in action on May 3, 1863 at the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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My great grandfather and great uncle knew all the men in the "Civil War Requiem" video as they were part of the 53rd NC which was the sole unit defending Fort Mahone. (Fort Mahone was named "Fort Damnation" by the Yankees) *Handpicked men of the 53rd (My great grandfather was one of these) made the final, night assault at Petersburg in an attempt to break Grant's line. This was against Fort Stedman which was a few miles to the slight northeast. They initially succeeded, but reinforcements drove them back. This video is made from photographs which were taken the day after the 53rd evacuated the lines the night before to begin the retreat to Appomattox. I have many more pictures taken by the same photographer, one of these shows a 14 year old boy and the other is the famous picture of the blond, handsome soldier with his musket.
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*General Gordon promised the men a gold medal and 30 days leave if they accomplished their task and many years after the War my great grandfather wrote General Gordon, who was then governor of Georgia about this incident. They exchanged several letters which I have framed. See first link below.
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*The Attack On Fort Stedman
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"His Colored Friends"
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Lee's Surrender
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My Black NC Kinfolks
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Punished For Being Caught!

Great Grandfather Koonce

He was a drummer boy in the WBTS, survived the War only to die a few years later. He was caught in an ice storm on his way home, but instead of seeking shelter, continued on his horse until the end. His clothes had to be cut off and he died a few days later.